How Much XP Per Hour is Blood Rune Runecrafting?
The rate at which you can accumulate experience while crafting blood runes in Old School RuneScape (OSRS) can vary significantly based on your methods, gear, and efficiency. However, a reasonably achievable experience rate for blood runecrafting is around 38,000 experience per hour using the Arceuus method. More experienced players, utilizing optimal techniques and boosts, can push this to higher rates. Advanced methods like 2-tick banking can push rates much higher, with claims of achieving over 80,000 XP per hour (as cited in some OSRS guides) with the Zeah method. Let’s delve deeper into the nuances of maximizing your experience while crafting blood runes, and address some commonly asked questions.
Understanding Blood Rune Runecrafting Experience
The base experience per blood rune crafted is 10.5. It’s important to note that this experience is a constant and isn’t affected by boosts that apply to other runes. The amount of experience you gain per hour is tied directly to the number of blood runes you can craft. Efficiency is key in reducing travel time and maximizing your crafting cycles. This is where gear, techniques, and understanding the mechanics can heavily influence your experience rates.
Factors Affecting Your XP Rate
- Runecrafting Level: Your Runecrafting level directly impacts how many runes you craft per pure essence. At 99 Runecrafting, you always craft two runes per essence, effectively doubling your experience gain per inventory.
- Gear: Wearing the full Raiments of the Eye set increases the number of runes you craft, but does not increase the experience. It enhances your profit per hour by increasing rune yield, not XP.
- Banking Methods: Fast, efficient banking is critical. Using 2-tick banking, a more advanced method, allows for significantly faster trips between the bank and the altar. This is only achievable with meticulous technique and can push your hourly rates dramatically.
- Pouch Management: Runecrafting pouches significantly increase the amount of essence you can carry. Maximizing pouch capacity and keeping them repaired is essential for maintaining peak efficiency.
- Agility Shortcuts: The 93 Agility shortcut near the blood altar in Arceuus is vital. It drastically reduces travel time and is a critical requirement for maximizing your XP per hour, especially if not using the Zeah method.
- The Blood Altar Itself: Where you train matters. While the blood altar on Zeah requires no quest, training at the regular blood altar requires the Sins of the Father quest. There are differences between the two methods beyond this, with Zeah having different methods and efficiencies.
Maximizing Your Blood Rune XP
The Arceuus method, centered around the aforementioned 93 Agility shortcut, is a common method for blood rune training. It focuses on fast trips between the bank and the altar. Optimal play involves the following:
- Teleport to a bank: Utilize a teleport to a bank that is easily accessible.
- Withdraw essence: Fill your inventory and all pouches with pure essence.
- Travel to the shortcut: Use the fairy ring DLS, exit south, then travel north-east and south to the 93 Agility shortcut.
- Enter the altar: Take the shortcut to the east and enter the blood altar.
- Craft runes: Use all available essence to craft blood runes.
- Teleport out: Use a teleport to quickly return to a bank, ready for another cycle.
2-tick banking is a far more advanced technique, not for the faint of heart. It manipulates game ticks to optimize the deposit and withdrawal process, allowing for significantly faster trips to and from the bank. This technique is not always feasible, requiring high precision and dedicated practice.
The Importance of Raiments of the Eye
The Raiments of the Eye is a notable set of robes that provides a bonus to rune output when runecrafting. Each piece of the set grants a 10% increase in rune yield, with a 20% set bonus when wearing all the pieces. This results in a total bonus of 60% more runes per essence when worn fully. While it doesn’t directly increase experience, it boosts your hourly profit.
Raiments of the Eye: Profit vs. Experience
It’s crucial to understand that the Raiments of the Eye only increase rune yield and do not grant additional experience. This means that while you will earn more runes and hence more money, the experience gain per essence is not increased. For pure experience-focused training, other optimizations may be prioritized over acquiring the full Raiments of the Eye set.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. Can you boost for blood runes?
No, general runecrafting boosts do not apply to blood or soul runes. The only boosts available for these runes are specific to the Dark Altar page or, in the case of the true blood altar, they use the same boosts as regular runecrafting.
2. What is the shortcut for blood rune runecrafting?
The shortcut to the blood altar requires 93 Agility. You can reach it by using the fairy ring code DLS, exiting south, then heading north-east and finally south.
3. Does Raiments of the Eye increase XP?
No, the Raiments of the Eye do not increase the experience gained from Runecrafting. They only increase the number of runes crafted.
4. Can you craft blood runes without Sins of the Father?
The Sins of the Father quest is required to craft blood runes the regular way. However, you do not need it to craft blood runes on Zeah.
5. How much XP per hour is possible with the Zeah method?
The Zeah method, with optimal play and 2-tick banking, can achieve experience rates of 80,000+ per hour according to some OSRS runecrafting guides.
6. Can blood altars share runes?
Yes, up to 4 altars can use the same set of runes from one main altar with Blood Magic.
7. Does the colossal pouch degrade?
Yes, pouches degrade based on the amount of essence stored within them, rather than the frequency of use.
8. How much GP per hour can I make with blood runes?
Runecrafting blood runes, especially with the full Raiments of the Eye set, is highly profitable, potentially earning you upwards of 1.7 million GP per hour.
9. What is the quest to unlock death runes?
Mourning’s End Part II unlocks death runes. You’ll need 65 Runecrafting to craft them at the Death Altar in the Temple of Light.
10. How do you craft lava runes?
Lava runes require 23 Runecrafting and can be crafted by bringing pure essence and either fire runes with a fire talisman to the Earth Altar, or earth runes with an earth talisman to the Fire Altar.
11. What is the quest requirement for blood runes?
The quest requirement for crafting blood runes at the regular altar is the Legacy of Seergaze along with 77 Runecrafting.
12. What does the Rune of Sacrifice do?
The Rune of Sacrifice is used to upgrade Blood Altars in Blood Magic, and it can be used in place of any other rune to do so.
13. How do you fix a large or giant pouch?
You can fix pouches for free with the Dark Mage in the Abyss or by using the NPC Contact lunar spell.
14. What is blood essence?
Blood Essence is used as fuel for your Castle Heart in other games or contexts. In the context of OSRS, it refers to a consumable item used in certain runecrafting activities.
15. Can you put rune essence in a rune pouch?
Yes, rune essence and pure essence can be stored in rune pouches, significantly increasing the amount of essence you can carry.
Conclusion
Achieving high experience rates in blood rune runecrafting requires a combination of skill, knowledge, and optimized play. While 38,000 XP per hour is a solid baseline, with the proper techniques like 2-tick banking, the Zeah method, optimal gear, and maximizing the use of pouches, dedicated players can push their hourly gains substantially higher. Remember, consistency and efficient use of game mechanics is key to success.